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Senior Writer Jamal Watson is in New Orleans through Saturday covering the 74th Annual Convention of the College Language Association. If you can’t catch up to him in person, you can connect via jwatson1@diverseeducation.comor follow him on twitter @jamalericwatson

“Achieving the Dream’ ID’s Student Issues
NASHVILLE — Advancing equity, strengthening advising and improving pedagogy and curriculum were among the issues explored this week at the annual meeting of Achieving the Dream.
Dr. Karen A. Stout, president of Achieving the Dream, addresses...

Minority-Serving Institutions Anxious Over Tax Bill While the Senate Republicans just passed a major tax overhaul on Friday, higher education writ at-large has been wringing its hands for weeks. Especially for colleges and universities with large minority populations, the bill would only pile on more ...

Chicago STAR Scholars Program Provides College Access Tony Tran was all set to report to his dorm at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign when his mother told him she had been diagnosed with cancer.
“So I couldn’t in good faith go,” Tran says, explaining that he didn’t want to leave his fa...